Dying Light

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  1. Popletovich
    Jan 29, 2015
    9
    As much as I was disappointed by so many games in the past year, I was at first surprised and then delighted by Dying Light. Sure, the story is mediocre (but it does take 30 hours to go through it all), characters are barely fleshed out and the vast majority of what is in Dying Light was somewhere else before (Far Cry 3 comes to mind most often). But as with Shadow of Mordor, all of theAs much as I was disappointed by so many games in the past year, I was at first surprised and then delighted by Dying Light. Sure, the story is mediocre (but it does take 30 hours to go through it all), characters are barely fleshed out and the vast majority of what is in Dying Light was somewhere else before (Far Cry 3 comes to mind most often). But as with Shadow of Mordor, all of the diverse influences come together to make something amazing. Parkour is a lot of fun and stays fun as new skills are learnt and give new movement options. A new environment appears 2/3 through the story and you can finally run along rooftops like a true parkour champion. Melee fighting is well-balanced and feels great and also changes significantly as new skills are unlocked and better weapons found - at first (and by that I mean many many hours), running is the only option, then some moderate fighting, only towards the end does fighting make sense, still without being too easy, as the zombie hordes can still easily overpower you and there are new types of much tougher zombies. Then there are the nights that change things around even more - adding stealth, making things more scary, making you run away in terror every time you are spotted by the much faster night hunting zombies.

    It's a good game. There is so much in it and despite being somewhat repetitive, it doesn't get boring. Some gameplay moments are pure gold - having to cut a path through a hall filled with a 100 zombies, trying to save a friend on the other side. Your first fight with an enemy sporting an assault rifle, shooting at you from a roof, making you plan your approach so that you can find a way to rush him with your baseball bat without being headshot. And so many others. Some other moments are not so good - the ending fight sequence comes to mind.

    Still, this is by far the most pleasant gaming surprise I've had in the past year. Thank God this is nothing like Dead Island.    … Expand
  2. mathewdbarlow
    Jan 29, 2015
    7
    I have been eagerly awaiting this game for some time since seeing a teaser trailer released last year. Unfortunately I've been left slightly disappointed with the end result. Not being a great fan of multiplayer, I like to complete a game on my own first so this review is based solely on single player action. I'm around 18 hours into the game and at 45% story completion.

    First the    I have been eagerly awaiting this game for some time since seeing a teaser trailer released last year. Unfortunately I've been left slightly disappointed with the end result. Not being a great fan of multiplayer, I like to complete a game on my own first so this review is based solely on single player action. I'm around 18 hours into the game and at 45% story completion.

    First the bad:
    The most disappointing element for me was the very limited map size, which you can run across end to end in around 7 minutes. I explored the entire map area and restored all safe houses within 8 hours of playing, leaving little in the way of exploring for later in the game. As far as I can tell there are no areas inaccessible that will require later missions to unlock. Compared to a truly open world game such as Skyrim or GTA, Dying Light's world is minute. With other games soon to be released with maps 20-30 times bigger than this (eg.The Witcher 3), this doesn't seem enough to satisfy my adventurous side.

    Another disappointment is the repetitive nature of the environments, NPCs and zombies. There are around 5 or 6 types of zombie lurking around so far, and they all wear basically the same outfit or carry the same injuries etc. The same can be said for the rival gang members you encounter, with each roving band being the same as the last. Buildings and textures are continually repeated throughout the landscape as well, and many buildings are not accessible, again questioning whether it is truly an 'open world' experience.

    Now the good:
    Story is engaging and voice acting is good quality. The NPCs are well characterized, some likeable, some genuinely sinister. The day/night mechanic adds a new dimension to the zombie/survival genre I have not encountered before and being chased by the virals in the dark can be an edge of your seat experience as you strive to make the nearest safe house with your survival points in the bag!

    The graphics are also gorgeous, even without being on the highest settings, and the world is well designed to accommodate and test the parkour mechanics.

    Level up system is also well balanced and nicely opens up new skills such as crafting and extra combat techniques, as the story progresses.

    Performance:
    In terms of optimization and performance, personally I have had no issues and have been averaging around 45FPS outside on low/medium settings (which still look good). This is with an ATI HD 6870 gpu and a 3rd generation i5 processor at 3.3ghz. I am running the game off a dedicated SSD which I think helps, and have windows 7 running of another SSD. I have turned down field of view (FOV) settings below default which boosted frame rates instantly, given the limited RAM onboard my graphics card.

    In summary, it's not a bad game and a great concept, I just think they could have done so much more with the size and depth f the environment in order to make it truly immersive.    … Expand
  3. Gigatless
    Jan 29, 2015
    8
    The whole game is pretty much a combination of Mirrors Edge + L4D2 + Resident Evil + Assassins Creed + Dishonored. Which was damn awesome at first.

    First impression (Pluses): Stunningly beautiful, amazingly optimized, promising, unexpected, thoughtful dialogues, great character profiles, great delivery (story). The guy you are playing for is not obviously a good or a bad guy (finally    The whole game is pretty much a combination of Mirrors Edge + L4D2 + Resident Evil + Assassins Creed + Dishonored. Which was damn awesome at first.

    First impression (Pluses): Stunningly beautiful, amazingly optimized, promising, unexpected, thoughtful dialogues, great character profiles, great delivery (story). The guy you are playing for is not obviously a good or a bad guy (finally its not as simple as in fairy tales) The game felt pretty much alive during the first three hours. Crane has a great voice actor and its not Troy Baker Смайлик «tongue»

    Last impression (Minuses, SPOILERS): So it happens that there is a FREELANCE SOLDIER which government sends to retrieve the super important documen TO SAVE THE WORLD. ALONE. Its like blazing the olympic flame on national tv using just a single match. Okay, Im fine with that, whatever. Lets see how you guys can pull this out.
    During the story it becomes obvious that Crane is not a professional at all. They send this guy who has absolutelly no professional attitude to the job alone. And at the end of the game he drops F-bombs in every_second_dialogue, and even with his boss. Im.. out of words. This is a really weird character.
    But that's not it yet. At the second half of the game (which is not that long to reach) Crane rushes to another city for our main female character (Jade). To make sure: so far he had just a 5-10 dialogues with her but it already feels like they've been deep in love for 5 years. Or at least he was. This whole passionate hero-princess thing escalated too quickly . Not enough premises to make characters that close. The devs were obviously in hurry to release it because it should be twice longer, and with way more main characters interactions.
    And as soon as he reaches the second town everybody go like "OMG, R U CRANE? UR A HERO HERE I SEEN A POSTER WITH YA!". But in fact it's been only a week in the game since he arrived at the island and the guy already has **** posters everywhere saying how cool he is. Shiiiiiiit.
    The main villain is just terrible. Such a cliche. Im not even speaking of the ending battle, which was as much predictable as the main vaillain's lines "U CANNOT DEFEAT ME, NOBODY CAN DO DAT!11 UGHHHHH, U DID DAT, IMPOSSIBIRUU".
    So the whole second half of the game Crane doesn't suprise us at all and the storyline is pretty much straightforward: they find the cure, the bad guy takes it, you fight the bad guy (casualties involved). And thats what I hated the most. Such promising game at the first half, such predictable at the second half.
    And the last thing that I didn't like: 2 assault rifles, 1 shotgun, a couple of pistols and **** OF COLD WEAPONS. Srsly, I hate when devs are greedy for powerful weapons.

    But in the end pluses are way too big. The game was absolutely beautiful and it was just a great experience to jump into this world during this winter.
    I already explained why its not 10/10, so its solid 8/10 from me.    … Expand
  4. billay
    Jan 29, 2015
    2
    I was hoping for more graphics wise. Maybe since game is only 11gb they cut down on texture size. Everything seems washed out and needs more colour saturation. Character models look really dated too, especially when compared to games like cod aw.
  5. GuaranaJones
    Jan 29, 2015
    10
    Great game. No killer-issues so far. 4 hrs played, one freeze. Thats ok. Sometimes FPS-Drops for a second. Ok as well. Else, superb open world, graphics on ultra pretty descent. My specs: I7-4790, 16 GB Ram, SDD, Radeon r9-280x. If you don´t mind minor issues, you will have lots of fun.
  6. Sixara
    Jan 29, 2015
    10
    I'm going to be brief.

    This games ability to immerse the player in a zombie survival horror atmosphere works very well. I caused an explosion which caused the local ferals to come running. I jumped in my seat, I never jump! The beginning of the game is a rather lengthy tutorial that will end at the first airdrop mission. The visuals are amazing, the sounds and voice acting are very    I'm going to be brief.

    This games ability to immerse the player in a zombie survival horror atmosphere works very well. I caused an explosion which caused the local ferals to come running. I jumped in my seat, I never jump! The beginning of the game is a rather lengthy tutorial that will end at the first airdrop mission.

    The visuals are amazing, the sounds and voice acting are very good. there are performance problems with a little video lag here and there.I found that turning motion blur off speeds the game up a lot and the video lag is gone. Be mindful that performance issues are going to happen in a first day release pc game. Most developers will eventually have a patch available.Patience is key here..

    The weapons are varied but fun to use. The fighting with zombies is believeable. They are hard to kill and take effort to put into the ground.

    The crafting system reminds me of Alien Isolation's way of crafting items. As a matter of fact, if you look hard you can see where they borrowed from other games. The safe house tower in the Northeast corner of the map reminded me a lot of the comm towers in Far Cry 4.

    I recommend the game if you have the hardware to get it to run. I was going to only play it briefly yesterday and that turned into over 8 hours!

    My rig:

    Core i7-3930k @ 4.1ghz
    ASUS X79 Deluxe
    G.Skill Ripjaw 16gb
    EVGA NVIDIA 970 SC X2 IN SLI    … Expand
  7. Utran
    Jan 29, 2015
    10
    o jogo está incrivel demais, a ambientação o clima de seriedade total da historia, tudo esta absolutamente perfeito, o mais legal é quando tu ataca um zumbi e tu tem nitidamente aquele sentimento de que o zumbi esta sentindo o golpe, tu sente o golpe quando bate

    - graficos incriveis, iluminação tudo é lindo, e ta rodando muito liso mesmo perfeito demais. - historia sensacional te    o jogo está incrivel demais, a ambientação o clima de seriedade total da historia, tudo esta absolutamente perfeito, o mais legal é quando tu ataca um zumbi e tu tem nitidamente aquele sentimento de que o zumbi esta sentindo o golpe, tu sente o golpe quando bate

    - graficos incriveis, iluminação tudo é lindo, e ta rodando muito liso mesmo perfeito demais.
    - historia sensacional te prende desde o primeiro segundo
    - sistema de craft magnifico
    - aba de habilidades com 3 opções com muitas skills
    - o inimigo sente o golpe quando é atacado e isso da uma imersão absurda
    - a movimentação esta muito fluida tudo ocorre de forma explendida
    - cidade gigantesca com diversos lugares diferentes não andei tudo mais garanto que é monstruosamente grande
    - são 2 jogos, o dia e a noite que muda totalmente o gameplay é show demais
    - pode entrar nas casas e construções e vasculhar tudo
    - dezenas de itens que tem serventia para craft ou vender
    - carros, lixos, zumbis mortos, geladeiras, malas enfim tudo pode ser vasculhado atraz de itens
    - multiplayer sensacional, coop desde o começo apos o prologo, é so deixar ativado o coop que sempre entra gente , e o modo zumbi pode deixar ativado pra outros jogadores entrar no seu jogo, ou pode jogar sozinho sem ninguem te encher ai vai a gosto do freguês.
    - são tantas qualidades nesse jogo, diria que esse é o jogo que a muito procurava de zumbis, o sistema de combate é muito show enquanto em outros jogos os inimigos tu ataca e sao uns pedaços de madeira aqui no dying light o inimigo sente o golpe é so jogando pra entender é muito show.

    - a dublagem esta muito mais muito boa mesmo, fizeram um otimo trabalho parabens a warner e techland.
    - o som do jogo esta muito show.

    - quem tiver em duvidas pode comprar, esse jogo merece ser comparado.

    abraços.    … Expand
  8. Captn_wanc
    Jan 29, 2015
    4
    The game is looking great,and the story seems fine just right about until you finish training and go out for run.Then game becomes unplayable even with nice rig,not only that even that beautiful picture kinda fade away...Zombies are looking all the same with same face expression.I`m not fan or middle eastern chracters in game.Even with awsome game optimazation still wouldn`t play game.niceThe game is looking great,and the story seems fine just right about until you finish training and go out for run.Then game becomes unplayable even with nice rig,not only that even that beautiful picture kinda fade away...Zombies are looking all the same with same face expression.I`m not fan or middle eastern chracters in game.Even with awsome game optimazation still wouldn`t play game.nice try on beginning tho… Expand
  9. KarmaCrisis
    Jan 29, 2015
    10
    I've been massively disappointed by all the previous AAA zombie games. Dying Light is different. It really nails the zombie theme. The movement and combat are fluid, the weapon/crafting/skill systems make it surprisingly deep. I'm not often impressed by games anymore but this one has really surprised me.
  10. Dneif
    Jan 29, 2015
    8
    멀티 플레이 시 사용자 경험에 정말 최선을 다 한 작품. 싱글 캠페인을 코옵으로 진행하며 발생할 다양한 문제점들을 개선함. 예) 호스트가 퀘내비를 정함. 루팅은 따로 따로. 모든 플레이어가 인벤토리 등 메뉴를 보고 있다면 게임이 일시 정지 등. 친구와 멀티로 진행하면 정말 재미있게 플레이 가능. 최고 수준의 그래픽임에도 최적화가 제법 잘 되어있다. 다만 한글 IME관련 창모드 버그나 어느정도 스킬이 언락된 이후엔 오픈월드의 프리플레이 컨텐츠가 부족한 부분은 감점요소.멀티 플레이 시 사용자 경험에 정말 최선을 다 한 작품. 싱글 캠페인을 코옵으로 진행하며 발생할 다양한 문제점들을 개선함. 예) 호스트가 퀘내비를 정함. 루팅은 따로 따로. 모든 플레이어가 인벤토리 등 메뉴를 보고 있다면 게임이 일시 정지 등. 친구와 멀티로 진행하면 정말 재미있게 플레이 가능. 최고 수준의 그래픽임에도 최적화가 제법 잘 되어있다. 다만 한글 IME관련 창모드 버그나 어느정도 스킬이 언락된 이후엔 오픈월드의 프리플레이 컨텐츠가 부족한 부분은 감점요소.
  11. JackyBeans
    Jan 28, 2015
    9
    Highly recommended!
    Great game especially for those who liked dead island.
    Graphics are good, the soundtrack superb and overall "tone" is right. The parkour is top notch! Now, how could we ever play a FPS in the future without the "parkour" element? lol Once you get used to it, develop it and master it, its gonna be hard going back to the traditional FPS control scheme... On PC    Highly recommended!
    Great game especially for those who liked dead island.

    Graphics are good, the soundtrack superb and overall "tone" is right.
    The parkour is top notch!
    Now, how could we ever play a FPS in the future without the "parkour" element? lol
    Once you get used to it, develop it and master it, its gonna be hard going back to the traditional FPS control scheme...

    On PC it looks really really good as long as you have the hardware to run it.
    I'm on GTX 970 and mostly running full bling bling (at MAX settings with only View Distance set at 50%) at 1080p60.

    Recommended.    … Expand
  12. Captainrazel
    Jan 28, 2015
    7
    My first horror game to play and make me feel good, Game made me feel like surviving in Zombie world type off. The graphics are nice, clean textures- great environments, and good character models but not completely Polish. Characters are not that much good but ok. { RAHIM was my most like/favorite person in game },

    Gameplay- It plays much like a cleaner, better looking, more fluid, and    My first horror game to play and make me feel good, Game made me feel like surviving in Zombie world type off. The graphics are nice, clean textures- great environments, and good character models but not completely Polish. Characters are not that much good but ok. { RAHIM was my most like/favorite person in game },

    Gameplay- It plays much like a cleaner, better looking, more fluid, and more fun dead island.Soundtrack is arabic kind of theme which is OK.

    {Credits to Alecmann} Story- This is the underwhelming portion. The story is far more serious than that of dead island. No dark humor, no super cheesy characters (well not as cheesy). You find yourself helping the few survivors in the city with fetch quests and the typical point A to point B. There are a couple surprises- and a passable story to match. None of it is bad, but none of it is great. It is clear the time was put into the gameplay. On the plus side the game is sizable. If you are a completion you could get 70 hours out of this game, though the average gamer can expect 30 to 40. [7.5/10]    … Expand
  13. Monkfish
    Jan 28, 2015
    5
    Positively uninteresting and mediocre. A copycat game.

    Good points: The graphics are stunning, although the setting is highly repetitive. The Day and Night cycle adds some strategy to the game. Animations look very good, especially combat. Leveling and perk system. It has variety. Bad Points: It feels absolutely contrived, made simply to appeal to the most people and tick all    Positively uninteresting and mediocre. A copycat game.

    Good points:
    The graphics are stunning, although the setting is highly repetitive.
    The Day and Night cycle adds some strategy to the game.
    Animations look very good, especially combat.
    Leveling and perk system. It has variety.

    Bad Points:
    It feels absolutely contrived, made simply to appeal to the most people and tick all the standard boxes.
    Music and Sound effects, or lack thereof.
    Voice Acting is bad for the most part.
    The story is highly uninteresting.
    It borrows HEAVILY from better games such as Far Cry even The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim with the exact same Lockpicking.
    It'll make you nauseous. Even as someone who has never felt nauseous from a video game or movie.
    It's a "go and do this, find me that" game. Every mission is the same, and it feels like you're just being dragged around.    … Expand
  14. Alcalientre
    Jan 28, 2015
    3
    1) Weird film grain effect for no reason, can't be turned off.

    2) Save system makes certain boss battles anti-clamactic, instead of starting over from a save with medkits still if you die, you don't keep your medkits and somehow you have come back to life but enemies involved in the fight haven't, so it's easier. I died three times in one fight before beating it because I suck, instead    1) Weird film grain effect for no reason, can't be turned off.

    2) Save system makes certain boss battles anti-clamactic, instead of starting over from a save with medkits still if you die, you don't keep your medkits and somehow you have come back to life but enemies involved in the fight haven't, so it's easier. I died three times in one fight before beating it because I suck, instead of letting me get better and actually get satisfaction, the enemies kept the damage I had dealt so the last time I ran in I only had to hit the one guy left alive once to end it. Stupid stupid stupid.

    3) Parkour phsyics is not very fluid to me. You can make jumps that, visually you seem like you shouldn't be able to. You can't climb onto overhanging ledges above you. You can't actually sprint, there's only walking and "sprinting" which is just running. You can't slide under obstacles or wall run like Mirror's Edge, or else you have to level up a bunch first. The game would be better if all of that fluidity was just given to you in the prologue. If that means you can't have a bunch of trivial reward levels to engage players with and you actually have to write a good story, too bad.

    4) Story disappoints. No explanation for why they are sending you out to do these critical missions from the beginning and not the people they already have trained with better equipment. If you are doing a super critical mission why can't you have the baseball bat that some dude in HQ is just sitting around with. Stupid. Just standard "you're the video game hero so here do all the most important things from the beginning" with an absolute minimum of story to explain.

    Just a bad mashup of Assasin's Creed, Mirror's Edge, and Zombie games that doesn't do any particular thing well.    … Expand
  15. enut_butter
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Terribly optimized, mediocre zombie game.

    What else is there to say? I should have known not to waste my money with this developer, but I thought I would give it a shot. Needless to say, I want my money back.
  16. Smackk
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    Wow Im really impressed with this game. Solid game play mechanics, great questing system, fun coop, great optimization. I genuinely dont have a single bad thing to say about it. The people saying the optimization is bad are most likely not very savvy and have no idea how to adjust settings, lowering view distance and forcing triple buffering through the driver gives massive FPS boosts. ImWow Im really impressed with this game. Solid game play mechanics, great questing system, fun coop, great optimization. I genuinely dont have a single bad thing to say about it. The people saying the optimization is bad are most likely not very savvy and have no idea how to adjust settings, lowering view distance and forcing triple buffering through the driver gives massive FPS boosts. Im getting 55+ FPS at all times at 1440p just by turning down View distance with my SLI 780s. Game runs great, looks great, and plays great, definitely worth the price.… Expand
  17. pimpus
    Jan 28, 2015
    9
    for those they have performance problem with vsync turn on triplebuffering(gogle it),after this i have const 60 fps.i had 20 to 60 fps and after this -magic .Game is very good but console oriented.Now i have no prob with perf.
  18. dulifuli69
    Jan 28, 2015
    1
    Aside from the things others have said, I still can't believe that the main character, who is a special forces guy of some sort, who can instantly parkour and stuff still does not have the stamina to wave a freakin gas pipe 4 times. Totally ridiculous. And to go further a simple iron pipe goes wreck on zombies' heads. Seriously what the damn hell goes wrong about a simple iron pipe???Aside from the things others have said, I still can't believe that the main character, who is a special forces guy of some sort, who can instantly parkour and stuff still does not have the stamina to wave a freakin gas pipe 4 times. Totally ridiculous. And to go further a simple iron pipe goes wreck on zombies' heads. Seriously what the damn hell goes wrong about a simple iron pipe???

    This game gets 1 from me, since people have worked with it, so deserves more than zero.    … Expand
  19. grungebob
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    By far, the best of many games. Amazing graphics, amazing game play, amazing story, crafting, weapon modding and a game that you have to solve without just run and gunning. I highly recommend this... but I think this game was specifically made for me. I love Diablo, Batman and GTA series and I have liked previous zombie games like Dead Island... and every one of those games is mixed inBy far, the best of many games. Amazing graphics, amazing game play, amazing story, crafting, weapon modding and a game that you have to solve without just run and gunning. I highly recommend this... but I think this game was specifically made for me. I love Diablo, Batman and GTA series and I have liked previous zombie games like Dead Island... and every one of those games is mixed in this one.

    Also the Co-Op is great. Ubisoft, take a queue... When I play with on my friend's game in Far Cry 4, it should also save that progress to my game like this game is. No redoing on my local game.

    Also, I have no lag and no frame drops like other people are stating... 8 hrs in... but then again, I'm not like other people that put together crap machines and expect to run modern, amazing graphics.

    I highly recommend it. This is how seriously I like it... It will only be the second game I have bought the season pass for the game. (Bioshock Infinite is the previous). 10/10    … Expand
  20. asafahmed
    Jan 28, 2015
    7
    Bad optimization.And you cant walk smoothly just like dead island riptide.The game play is very fun.Park-our thing is also very fun.They should fix the optimization problem fast.
  21. Zourin
    Jan 28, 2015
    9
    Everyplace Farcry 4 failed, Dying Light delivers.

    Free-movement laterally and vertically through an urban environment is done very well (and gets smoother with skill-ups) never gets old, and the environment reward exploration with valuable loot, blueprints, and trophies. Urban verticality means there is often a way over your problems, and sparser outlying areas make you very aware of    Everyplace Farcry 4 failed, Dying Light delivers.

    Free-movement laterally and vertically through an urban environment is done very well (and gets smoother with skill-ups) never gets old, and the environment reward exploration with valuable loot, blueprints, and trophies. Urban verticality means there is often a way over your problems, and sparser outlying areas make you very aware of how vulnerable you become without a plethora of obstacles to put between you and your pursuers.

    Enemies that don't seem tedious because they always present a 'fight or run' decision at every turn (and running is still fun). At night, this turns into 'run or run like hell' if you get spotted (night is skippable, as is day).

    Anyone who complained about wildlife in Farcry 4 will find DL's zombies a reprieve. NPC's don't exist as badger and eagle fodder (making their often quirky/appalling subquests a part of the story as well as often reward you with unpurchaseable/uncraftable weapon upgrades (or even blueprints for craftable ones).

    As you develop your skills, the hordes grow more numerous and diverse, always posing significant risk to your well being. Expect to get beaten and killed, often, depending on your approach and ability to weigh risks. Firearms are powerful and become more available as time goes on, but will attract measures of unwanted attention which, again, may or may not be worth their use in any given situation. The risk/reward balance feels well measured, and trading an obnoxious threat for a more predictable one can sometimes be worth it.

    Disposable melee weapons keep you on your toes and makes upgrade components all the more valuable as you progress; there's no reason to hoard. Keep the best, upgrade them, use them 'till its last breath, chuck it into the skull of a zombie as a parting celebration, and remorselessly move on to the next. Weapons are tools (literally), and there are plenty of them in Harran, so sell off the spares.

    Dying Light lands as a solid experience well worth the expense, both in story and gameplay. Sound and graphics play perfectly together as you jump, loot, and bludgeon your way through the streets trying to save as many people as you can. NPC's do their best to hold their own, protect their own, and know their city better than you do. Helping them feels rewarding, and I'd give them better than even odds against your average honey badger; having to combat the living is a completely different affair. I've seen pairs go toe to toe against rebar-wielding monstrosities with somewhat even odds, making my casual intervention feel worth it in the end.

    Pick it up.    … Expand
  22. Jetpil0t
    Jan 28, 2015
    7
    A really excellent game marred by fairly significant performance issues on PC. There is a lot to like here, the gameplay is smooth and well executed, difficulty level pis well tuned, story is substantial and interesting and side quests and missions are sizable, diverse and rarely repetitive.

    The enemy design and difficulty level is really well crafted, which is rare, especially in these    A really excellent game marred by fairly significant performance issues on PC. There is a lot to like here, the gameplay is smooth and well executed, difficulty level pis well tuned, story is substantial and interesting and side quests and missions are sizable, diverse and rarely repetitive.

    The enemy design and difficulty level is really well crafted, which is rare, especially in these types of open world games. Enemies are diverse and challenging and while there is no difficulty setting, players can moderate their own difficulty level through their play style which measures anywhere from moderate to quite difficult.

    The quest design is a real stand out too, as you rarely undertake any pointless or tedious quests and unexpected things consistently take place throughout, keeping things interesting and always worth doing.

    However the games performance on PC leaves quite a lot to be desired. I have played this on an R9 290 and a GTX 970, AMD GPU performance borders on unplayable while nVidia GPU performance is merely average despite the prevalence of nVidia Gameworks and proprietary features. AMD CPU performance takes a real hit too as the game seems to be not so well optimized leaving the single core performance of Intel CPUs at a significant advantage. That being said, the game presents with very few if any technical bugs, so hopefully any developer efforts will be focused solely on optimization.

    Quite a shame really as there are so many well crafted systems in the game, it's hard to fault it elsewhere and a real stand out title to get things kicked off in 2015.    … Expand
  23. fatirishman
    Jan 28, 2015
    8
    the game is pretty damn good but you have to grind for about 3-4 hours before the real fun starts. would have rated it higher if there wasn't such bad frame problems right now. it does kinda feel like dead island but it has the right to stand as its own just like lords of the fallen from dark souls.
    I'm running with MSI r 290 with a fx-8370 and 12 gigs ram and still have problems with    the game is pretty damn good but you have to grind for about 3-4 hours before the real fun starts. would have rated it higher if there wasn't such bad frame problems right now. it does kinda feel like dead island but it has the right to stand as its own just like lords of the fallen from dark souls.
    I'm running with MSI r 290 with a fx-8370 and 12 gigs ram and still have problems with frames staying around 15-20 frames that's just unplayable but love the game    … Expand
  24. DustEater
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    It is really funny when someone writes about bad optimalization having:
    Intel Core i7 4960x @ 4.0GHz
    16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM @1600MHz Game installed on 1TB HDD Dual GTX 770s in SLI OC My PC is: AMD Phenom II X4 945, 4GB RAM 1333, AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB, system on SSD, game on HDD. Game is briliant on MEDIUM settings without flushes like blur, gloom etc (useless stuff).    It is really funny when someone writes about bad optimalization having:
    Intel Core i7 4960x @ 4.0GHz
    16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM @1600MHz
    Game installed on 1TB HDD
    Dual GTX 770s in SLI OC

    My PC is: AMD Phenom II X4 945, 4GB RAM 1333, AMD Radeon HD 5850 1GB, system on SSD, game on HDD. Game is briliant on MEDIUM settings without flushes like blur, gloom etc (useless stuff).

    This is just a **** of a hater who hates because he hates to hate.

    Game kinda the same like Dead Island but made in new way. Here you have to survive not to rush throu massess of zombies killing every one of them. Thinking, planning and executing - its a good plan to survive. Character development is simple but well specified. Nothing more to add. Crafting - fast and simple. One minus to crafting is that you need to craft one item a time Can live with that. Graphic is much better than Dead Island. I cant see all aspects of it cause my 6-7 years old pc but Im happy with that I have. Even with that its still can run high-end games.    … Expand
  25. drdreh
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    Great game! Great ambiance! Great gameplay! The night really scary! Multiplayer mode is great fun! If you like zombie game, open world, play this game!
  26. Optimization
    Jan 28, 2015
    0
    Yet again, a poorly optimized game by Techland. This game has major performance problems, and is unplayable. After the tutorial and you're exposed to the open world, the fps drops and there is major stuttering when moving & turning side to side. After five minutes of being in-game, after the tutorial that is, the game crashes and an error comes up: "ResizeBuffers failed 0x887a0005" withYet again, a poorly optimized game by Techland. This game has major performance problems, and is unplayable. After the tutorial and you're exposed to the open world, the fps drops and there is major stuttering when moving & turning side to side. After five minutes of being in-game, after the tutorial that is, the game crashes and an error comes up: "ResizeBuffers failed 0x887a0005" with the title of the error called "CrashExit..." Techland do not know how to optimize a game properly, proof from past games they've made. Such as dead island, dead island riptide etc.

    My PC specifications:

    Intel Core i7 4960x @ 4.0GHz
    16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 RAM @1600MHz
    Game installed on 1TB HDD
    Dual GTX 770s in SLI OC    … Expand
  27. BurglorHamsack
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    Played the game for 2000 hours and it didn't have one flaw. Like Nicolai Iversen said i can't be tamed. its a great adventure, better than the mediocre Harry potter games hahahhahahahhahahhahahahha
  28. PashaAlex
    Jan 28, 2015
    4
    Boring, unpleasant to eyes (because of the filter), game not gory at all, parkour is buggy, optimization sometimes is awful... and loading screen is just ridiculous. I don't know about story, but something tells me it's nothing special, we have stupidest hero, who can only kill, jump, listen to orders. Haven't seen any good characters, all of them are stereotypical and not interesting.Boring, unpleasant to eyes (because of the filter), game not gory at all, parkour is buggy, optimization sometimes is awful... and loading screen is just ridiculous. I don't know about story, but something tells me it's nothing special, we have stupidest hero, who can only kill, jump, listen to orders. Haven't seen any good characters, all of them are stereotypical and not interesting.

    It's hybrid of Dead Island and Mirror's Edge on another island, but without FUN.    … Expand
  29. sinsro
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    The first horror game I played that is actually genuinely nerve wrenching. Nothing beats the feeling of harrowingly escaping a crowd zombies at night. A beautiful, huge world draws you in, and the harsh environment is unforgiving, but never unfair, and keeps you on your toes at all times. The story is interesting, cutscenes feels rewarding rather than interrupting. The game has some of theThe first horror game I played that is actually genuinely nerve wrenching. Nothing beats the feeling of harrowingly escaping a crowd zombies at night. A beautiful, huge world draws you in, and the harsh environment is unforgiving, but never unfair, and keeps you on your toes at all times. The story is interesting, cutscenes feels rewarding rather than interrupting. The game has some of the best graphics I have seen so far, truly spectacular. Do not miss this game if you have the slightest interest in the genre of open world games with zombies and a tad of RPG thrown in..… Expand
  30. Frozenbyte
    Jan 28, 2015
    10
    I like hw everybody with slow video cards are complaining about technical issues.
    Guys... this is new reality after XBOX ONE + PS4 release. In order to play new games you NEED VGA with 4GB VRAM. i have absolutelly no problem with frame rate on my 970GTX.
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75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 40
  3. Negative: 2 out of 40
  1. Ten Ton Hammer
    Nov 1, 2015
    80
    Don't let the Dead Island affiliation sway you one way or the other, Dying Light is its own game and it's rightfully fun, but it's not something that is Game of the Year material to me. If you like zombie games and open world games then this is worth the pickup, but otherwise I'd skip it until it goes on sale, because it's still a really fun game no matter how you dice it.
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  2. Washington Post
    Apr 6, 2015
    40
    It’s a game of a thousand house calls, in which everyone needs something they can’t get or do for themselves. Catastrophe has made every doorstep a welcome place, with disease and death the justification for an openness that might seem unthinkable under other circumstances.
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  3. Dealspwn
    Mar 22, 2015
    70
    If you can get past the clunky storytelling and the repetitive missions, you might a diamond in the rough that really empowers you to revel in the design aspects of its zombie-infested sandbox.
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